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Once considered one of Europe’s most prestigious economic gatherings, the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum has been largely hollowed out since the start of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine. Here’s what stood out this year. meduza.io/en/slides/ne...

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A Yekaterinburg military court has sentenced 48-year-old Vera Sidorkina, a single mother from Yoshkar-Ola, to 18 years in prison on charges of treason and attempting to join the Freedom of Russia Legion in Ukraine. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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Russian air defenses shot down two Ukrainian drones headed for Moscow on Friday morning, the city’s mayor, Sergey Sobyanin, said. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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Russian forces launched overnight drone attacks on the Ukrainian cities of Odesa and Kharkiv. In Odesa, at least one person was killed and 14 others were injured. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has appointed Hennadii Shapovalov as commander of the country’s Ground Forces. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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Putin has set a deadline for Ukrainians living in the occupied territories to accept Russian citizenship, “leave,” or refuse and face the consequences. Here’s what that means in practice. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

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Over the past decade, the number of cases opened under Russia’s notorious “LGBT propaganda” laws has grown eighteenfold. Here’s how this legislation evolved and what it means for queer people living under it. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

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Argentine intelligence has identified five Russian nationals suspected of espionage activities linked to “Russia’s geopolitical interests,” presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni said. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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Russia and Ukraine have carried out another prisoner exchange, both sides confirmed. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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The European Commission is considering transferring approximately 200 billion euros in frozen Russian assets into a new, higher-risk investment fund that could yield greater returns, Politico reported. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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Yesterday evening, Vladimir Putin answered questions from foreign journalists at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Here are a few of his more notable remarks. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

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Russia is “on the brink of a recession,” Economic Development Minister Maksim Reshetnikov said. Other officials, however, described the economy as “coming out of an overheated state.” meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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Some sections of Russian highways will never have mobile coverage because they pass through “closed zones,” according to Vyacheslav Petushenko, the head of the state-owned road company Avtodor. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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Journalists at the media outlet Yle have published new evidence of the Russian military's expanding infrastructure near the Finnish border. Meduza summarizes the findings, which are based on satellite imagery. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

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A new trend is on the rise in Bashkortostan: urban outdoor “samovar parties” where young people gather to drink tea, speak Bashkir, and dance. At least one attendee says the best part is that the state hasn’t turned it into a propaganda event yet. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

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“Life is so packed with events right now that looking back a few days feels like yesterday,” the Kremlin's spokesman said, disputing Donald Trump’s report today that he spoke “yesterday” to Vladimir Putin. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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The Russian-installed deputy mayor of the Ukrainian city of Berdyansk has been killed, according to Ukraine’s military intelligence agency. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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“[Putin] actually offered to help mediate,” Trump told journalists. “I said, ‘Do me a favor. Mediate your own. Let’s mediate Russia first.’” meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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An E.U. diplomat was reportedly assaulted in Russia’s Vladivostok in late May. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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With fleeing the country out of reach for many, some Russian deserters have turned to a new tactic to avoid being sent back to the war in Ukraine — getting locked up. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

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Keith Kellogg, U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, is planning to travel to Belarus in the next few days for talks with Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko, sources told Reuters. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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With the St. Petersburg Economic Forum kicking off today, Russia’s state-run and Kremlin-loyal media outlets have already received instructions from the presidential administration on which events to cover. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

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Canada’s latest sanctions list includes Putin’s former wife, Yeltsin’s daughter, and key Kremlin-linked figures. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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Volodymyr Zelensky and Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko have been at odds for more than five years, and now their conflict is flaring up again. Konstantin Skorkin explains what’s really at stake in the feud. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

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Russia’s Foreign Ministry declared earlier today that Israeli attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities are illegal under international law and create unacceptable security threats. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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Following Vladimir Putin's public comments last December about behind-schedule waste processing plants, Rostec CEO Sergey Chemezov met with the president today, delivered some bad news, and was told he now owes Putin one. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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Earlier today, federal lawmakers passed legislation in its final reading imposing limits on the use of non-Russian languages on public signage. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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After 13 years of reporting, the Saratov-based media project Svobodnye Novosti (“Free News”) announced last week that it had shut down amid pressure from Russia's federal censor. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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Oil prices jumped in the first days of the Israel–Iran war. Here’s what that could mean for Russia’s budget. meduza.io/en/cards/wil...

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A drone flew over the grounds of Russia’s trade mission in Sweden and dropped a bag of paint near its main entrance last night, according to the Russian embassy in Stockholm. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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The Trump administration has effectively disbanded the interagency working group it had created to develop a strategy for pressuring Russia to end the war in Ukraine, Reuters reports. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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The Russian State Duma has passed a law in its third and final reading that will allow authorities to penalize “foreign agents” for misdemeanor offenses they allegedly committed outside of Russia. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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North Korea will send sappers and construction workers to assist with reconstruction efforts in Russia’s Kursk region, Russian Security Council Secretary Sergey Shoigu said following talks with Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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Russian Post has launched a package delivery service to North Korea. According to the company, deliveries will take 15 calendar days. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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Russian forces carried out a large-scale missile and drone strike on Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, overnight, killing at least 14 people and injuring more than 50, according to preliminary reports. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

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Meduza summarizes a recent investigation by The Dossier Center about civilian cargo vessels that may have been launching Russian drones to spy on German military assets and infrastructure in the North Sea and the Kiel area. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

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Occupation authorities plan to build and repair over 600 miles of roads in Crimea — a project experts and Ukrainian officials say is meant to bolster military logistics and facilitate the illegal extraction of resources from occupied territory. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

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Associates of the late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny have canceled a memorial concert in Berlin, scheduled for June 28, citing circumstances beyond their control. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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Latvian authorities arrested politician Aleksejs Rosļikovs on Monday in connection with recent statements he made on the parliament floor about Russian speakers and Latvians. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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Russia’s Interior Ministry has listed Seda Suleymanova, a Chechen woman who was abducted from St. Petersburg and forcibly sent to her family in Chechnya in 2023, as a missing person. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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Some of the remains that Moscow handed over to Kyiv in the latest round of repatriation efforts were those of Russian soldiers, Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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Russia is actively promoting its homegrown Wikipedia alternative, Ruwiki, where a built-in neural network is touted as a key advantage over competitors. The results, however, have been far from impressive. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

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Ukraine received the remains of another 1,245 people today, the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War announced, adding that “the repatriation portion of the Istanbul agreements has been completed.” meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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Russian forces launched an overnight drone attack on Ukraine, injuring several people in Kyiv and the surrounding region. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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The head of Russia’s Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, has ordered a criminal case opened after a child poured water on an eternal flame memorial, the agency’s press service said on Sunday. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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Earlier this week, Meduza published an in-depth examination of Russian–Ukrainian drone warfare, reviewing its evolution and trajectory. That report is now available in English. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

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After a two-year rebound following the 2022 plunge, new car sales in Russia have again dropped. Here’s what’s driving the decline. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

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Putin has spoken by phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, Russian state media reports. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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A Moscow court has declared the websites of two companies offering Instagram profile verification services “extremist” and banned them in Russia. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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Ukraine has received the bodies of 1,200 fallen soldiers as part of an ongoing repatriation effort, the country’s Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War said on Friday. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

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